Duration: 30 Minutes
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Welcome to our training session, advanced tips and tricks for your discus Gale resources. My name is Tammi Burke.
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I'm your Gale Trainer. Any questions today, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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Our training for discus today will focus on the browse and search options. Resource features, tips and tricks.
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And hidden gems within your gale resources. This is one of my favorite sessions to facilitate because I get to show all the fun stuff that's available and how to find it.
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So this is again an advanced session. We're gonna work in a few of the basics but really we're going to focus on those advanced tips and tricks.
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We will start with an overview. Providing you with where you can go for access. And an overview of the Gale resources.
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I'm just going to briefly do that at the beginning. And then we're spending all of our time on those.
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Advanced tips and tricks. Any questions? To Please feel free to ask or stop me along the way.
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And then the Gale support site is I'll share that at the end of today's training.
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That support site has all of the materials you need to make your resources that you have from Discus, your Gale resources, super successful.
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And I'll talk a little bit more about that. At the end of today's training and all the materials that we have available for you.
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On the Gale support site.
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Access to your discus resources, hopefully you're already familiar with this link. But this is how you and your students.
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And your libraries can access the resources. Is utilizing the se discus. Org link.
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And then let's start with that overview of the Gale resources. You have a 3 Gale In context resources for our kindergarten through fifth graders.
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Cross-curricular general reference resource, you have Gale in context elementary, full of great multimedia, all of our in context resources have great multimedia.
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Also, so audio videos, images available. Gale In context biography, this resource features contextual information on the world's most influential people.
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You'll find timelines and periodicals and again great multimedia content. And then a galling context opposing viewpoints is an engaging hot topic.
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It looks at social issues, pro-con, we don't provide our users with the pro con like we don't identify the documents as a pro article or pro document or a con because we want them to develop those critical thinking or critical analysis skills.
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So, but the nice thing is with opposing viewpoints is you get both sides of the issue and everything in between.
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So left, right, and center. You'll find in this resource. So great periodical content and of course multimedia is available.
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There is a some hidden gems in each of these that I'll be sharing today that I'm excited to share with you all.
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The ebook collection I will touch into this isn't one that we are going to. Go into today.
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But your ebook collection that you have and the reason why is because there there are some different advanced features but the functionality that I'm going to share in your in context resources works the same.
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In the ebooks. If I have some time at the end, I will jump into it real quick just to show you that but really it's very intuitive if you if I show you advanced search and the others it's gonna make sense in your e-book collections too.
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But just to let you know what you have is you do have poetry. For students and this features discussions and analysis of poems.
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From all time periods and nations and cultures. You have short stories for students providing those critical overviews of short stories.
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Drama for students, which is critical overviews of the most studied plays with discussion of themes, characters, and dramatic devices.
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And then novels for students and this provides critical overviews of novels including discussions of plot character themes and structure.
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So let's talk about your browse and search options that you have available with your Gale resources.
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You have topic pages and what topic pages are they're curated collections of information that're on a specific topic.
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With multi-level topic overviews. Topic pages are a great way for users to browse through content, retrieve articles and videos, audio files, biographies, images, and so much more related to a specific topic.
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Users will discover they'll discover subject content within reference. And periodicals and biographies, primary sources, enrich multimedia and so much more.
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So think of them as curated collections of information on certain topics that are aligned related to curriculum standards related to topics that are being studied in schools, or of, of, you know, at the public library opposing viewpoints is a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, viewpoints is a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, especially as, a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, especially as, we look at, you
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know, what's being delivered on the news and, you know, getting that authoritative content in a resource like a posing viewpoints can be really helpful for even a adults to develop those critical thinking skills.
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Topic Finder is a search option that offers a visual representation of your search results and it's interactive.
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It's searches for keywords through titles, subjects, and approximately the first 100 words of all documents within the database.
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Advanced search and research limiters and we're going to spend some time in our advanced search today.
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These can improve research for your users. Whether it's getting an additional getting to additional resources or refining results by reading level or content type, publication or subject.
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These, advanced search with the pre search limiters. Are always a really great tool for all of our users.
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There are search chips also available for users to help understand what operators and special characters are. The pre search limiters allow users to really customize their search results.
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By they can customize them by full text document or peer reviewed journals. Maybe if they're looking for specific publication dates or certain content levels.
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Lexile measures or content types. And we're going to spend some time in content types today and document types also are all available and you can utilize these limiters before you do your advanced search.
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So let's talk about some of the resources. We're going to look at them here and then I'm going to go live into each individual product but I want to introduce them to you here so you give you hopefully a little bit of background knowledge and then when I work through the resource hopefully won't feel like I'm moving too fast for you all.
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So first I want to talk to you about person search that can be found in Gale In context biography.
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So this is a valuable search option within Gale In context biography. You can find. Who you need in biography in this resource or gallant context biography.
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It's really easy when you have a name but if you don't person search allows you to search on a person's occupation, nationality, gender, and more.
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Some of the occupations are pretty unique. So let's take a look at those. So let's, we're gonna start here and then go into product.
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Person search is found it's always found in advanced search but it's also on the homepage you can see it here in the contextual toolbar.
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So you'll find it in both places. So if your users are accessing from the home screen, they can just quickly jump into person search, but it always lives under advanced search.
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And there are a lot of search options. So you'll find it again in that contextual toolbar.
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You will. I'm sorry, click on advanced search and then if you look in the sub-banner for the person search button that's where you'll find it.
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And you can, as I mentioned, you can search by gender. You can also search by nationality, ethnicity, occupation, place of birth, place of death.
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Birthday, birth, death date. Occupation search is where we can really have some fun and we are going to do that.
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But let me share with you because really with that occupation field, as you start to type in a term.
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It will filter to occupations included in the database. So you're going to find all the traditional occupations plus a few more.
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Because the range of people included in Gaelic context biography, the occupation field has a pretty loose definition of occupation.
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You'll find occupations such as bank robber or alien contact D and werewolf available within Gale In context biography.
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So again, loose definition of occupation. You can start with broader terms, which that's the path we're going to take a broader term.
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But I will show you where will or you know those are fun to do around in the fall. I mean if you if you're thinking about this in the future think about it next fall.
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October, werewolf switches, there's vampires in there you're going to find.
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So you can use that in a fun way to introduce the resource but also show a skill like teach at research skill by using that person search.
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Bite and then searching by occupation.
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The next resource will go into is, is Gale in context opposing viewpoints where you're going to find interactive infographics.
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I'm not sure if you know that these are available. I'm going to show you the shortest path to find all of the.
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And then we're going to work within them so you can see how they work within the resource. And again, we're going to be spending a lot of time in advanced search. And again, we're going to be spending a lot of time in advanced search today.
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Advanced search, you can be spending a lot of time in advanced search today. Advanced search, you can search by document type, but the interactive infographics So that meaning that larger area like primary sources or viewpoints or reference those larger topics of organization of content.
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On the topic pages. So we have content types.
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But also document types and we're going to spend time using both today to find what we're looking for.
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Also you have some options to filter your search results down. So even from that advanced search, once you are in your search results, you can filter down by using the filter bar, filter down your
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Results. You can also jump directly into Topic Finder. And topic Finder is a visual inner visual interactive tool.
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It's a visual representation of your search results. It's interactive. You can always access topic Finder with an advanced search.
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It also now lives on the homepage in our in context resources. The only resource it is not in is Gale In Context Elementary and it is something that we have asked for.
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We get mixed. Reviews on that and some people think it's it's more of a higher level and we do see that the majority of the time students are in Gale In Context.
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Elementary they're pointing and clicking so having Topic Finder there. May not be really much of a benefit to them.
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So that's something that Gale is aware of that folks are interested in it, but it is that is the one resource that it is not in right now.
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So, but it is available in biography and opposing viewpoints and your Gale ebooks too.
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And then the last resource we're going to go into is Gale In Context Elementary. One of the hidden gems I want to share with you today are the unlabeled images and you can find all of the unlabeled images within the resource.
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I'm going to show you how to do that, but we are also going to spend some time.
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Using advanced search today, to find both the labeled and unlabeled images, they will show up in search results.
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So on topic pages you'll find them always, they're always going to be found in pictures.
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So in the content type of pictures, that's where you're going to find both a labeled and an unlabeled image.
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So if we have these. Diagrams as you're seeing here, you will find that if you see the labeled image that there's going to be an unlabeled one available to.
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So sometimes what I'll do and I'll model this for you today is I'll just do a quick basic search for unlabeled and I know that okay I see an unlabeled illustration of parts of a plant that I know that there's a that there's a labeled image also available.
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So I could go to parts of a plant. There's a topic page for that and that's where I would find both.
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And I'm going to talk to you about how those can be used in the elementary libraries and classrooms.
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Or in your, with your children's library, these are great. This is a great fun activity that you can bring in spring is around the corner.
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There's a lot on plants and and different animals. Like ladybugs would be a fun activity to introduce to your public library programming.
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Alright, so with that, let's go into our first resource. Again, if you have any questions, just let me know.
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And we are going to go into. Byeography first.
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So gallant context biography, looking at the homepage. I just want to point out a few items.
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You can sign in with Google and Microsoft at the top of the page. You have translation options where you can translate the navigational tools here.
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And then if I scroll down, you have all of these subject categories. That are listed on the homepage.
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And these will change a little bit because there's so many. And I'm going to show that to you in a moment.
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There are so many different topics available, but we do have the topic pages for for each individual organized below each of those topics.
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So we have over 5,000 topic pages available. I mentioned Topic Finder during our PowerPoint and topic Finder can be found here on the homepage as I mentioned.
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I'll show you the other location that it is too. And of course it always lives under advanced search here too.
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So let's go right to person search. We're gonna start there. In person search, you can, if you have the person's name, you can, you can use the person's name here.
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A basic search would be the same. You'd get the same results. The difference is here is if you don't have a search term or well I should say.
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If you use a person's name here, if there's any also known as This is where you would get that.
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That type of information. Where with a basic search it's just going to pull back all that content.
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So it's a little different in that respect. And I'm going to show you. I'm gonna.
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Pretend we don't have a name and we're just going to use some of these limiters to find people that we're interested in.
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The first one I'm going to do a quick and easy one and we're going to make it fun and I'm going to look for magicians.
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You can see search assist helps me out here. I click Magician, click search. And then I have all of the occupations here.
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You can see Beth. Birthday and death date and then over on the left hand side. Are a list of people who are.
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Magicians like we have here and then if there's any also known as this is what I was just referring to.
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If they're also known as. And you might have some like that it's a broad term so Magician, comedian, we have actors, so it might be a little bit of a combination of results, not strictly just magicians because there are other occupations that are similar.
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This one is a little interesting to have there, but okay from this person died, 1460. So I'm guessing we maybe have a couple things on them.
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But a hundred 86 people that we have. In this resource. Something related to a magician or a magician.
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Let's go back to that advanced search. Now let's use some of these filters in person search.
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So again, person search can be found on the homepage in the contextual toolbar or it always lives under advanced search and I took that path backwards.
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I just clicked on advanced search and when you do that, here's a little tip. It will clear out your past search.
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So if you use the back button, It's going to keep whatever search terms you put in. So the occupation of magician would still be here.
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If I open up advanced search and then go into person search it'll clear my previous searches, search terms that I put in.
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Okay, so that's a little tip with your Gale resources. Do you want to clear it off?
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Just go in and start. It's basically like starting it over so you're it's almost like a reset button if you think of it that way.
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Okay, African, so we're gonna go to let's do as in the city and we're gonna go to African-american.
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And Hispanic American.
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And then I'm going to jump to gender. And you can see we have female male gender fluid non-binary.
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And we also have the LGBTQ plus. Occupation, I'm going to jump over nationality and jump right to occupation and this is a really broad term that I'm going to use.
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As that scientist.
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Now I can put in place of birth, place of death. I can select the birth, the date of birth range or date of death range.
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So I can be a little bit more specific. And this is because you're going to see how broad and how much information it's going to pull back.
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So youizing some of these other limiters is going to be really helpful. To your users.
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When I click on it, you can see all of my filters. I have a hundred 26 names here.
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And then when I select one, so here we have the also known as, so everything is rolling up here for me.
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When I select one and let me make sure this is who I wanted to select today. Yes.
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Here are my search results. So I have biographies, news images, academic journals, audio websites, some magazines available.
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But I don't have a topic page. On this person. So, but you can see I have.
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I have one image and then some audio content. Available, but the biography, the biographical information is fantastic what I'm already seeing in the results.
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Then I could see if it's a biography or is it a brief biography? We have our content level showing up here.
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Just a little bit about content levels. There are 5. If you remember that a level 3 is middle school.
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Then it is really easy. Ones and twos are elementary. And we say generally elementary because we know we have some students that read at a higher level and then we say generally middle school because we know we have students that read at a lower level.
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So. Ones and twos generally elementary 3 middle school and then fours and fives are at that high school to undergrad level.
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And I will say sometimes you'll see in like in Gale In Context Elementary if you see a higher level there the magazines and newspapers I'm sure you're all familiar with this sometimes skew it a little higher.
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There might be a word that skews it a little higher, but we do have the listen button where students can listen to the text being right aloud to them.
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So if that's the case. We don't want to leave those those documents out of that for them.
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But again, it's in Gaelic context elementary, you'll see a lot of that for them.
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But again, it's in Gaelic context elementary, you'll see a lot of the level ones and twos, but there might be some threes there also that you'll Okay, so that's how we do a person search.
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I pointed out the also known as, but now let's go take a different path. We're gonna go back to the homepage.
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And this time I'm going to browse people and I can access it here through the contextual toolbar.
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Or browse all people here. And the reason why I want to show you this is because of the topics.
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So the topics you had a nice selection on the homepage, but look at all of the topics that you have available.
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So this is one of those tools that folks aren't necessarily aware of because they don't take that next step and click browse people.
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So you can see all of the like if I want summer Olympics is coming up. Maybe I want to look at summer Olympics.
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And it will filter that content down. Or And I'm going to, I have to go back to view all.
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It was acting a little. Off today. There we go. Now I want to switch it to maybe I want notable.
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Olympians. Shawn Johnson, I really like her. And here I am taken to her topic page.
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At this point, if I want to share this with with my, you know, it on my library website or if I'm a teacher I want to share it with students I can use the get link tool.
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Which will provide a persistent URL back to the spot or I can use Google Classroom and pull it right into.
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Google Classroom. Okay, let me know if there are any questions. We're gonna keep moving through the resources.
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One thing before I leave, even from a topic page, I can access topic finder. The differences here is it would pull in my, and let me just show you, it will pull in the results from this topic.
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So here I can see if I like this visualization, I like this interactive tool to look at content.
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I can do that. I have either the tile or the wheel. Both options are available. The tiles are a little bit more popular with our K through 12 students.
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And I can quickly jump into.
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Olympic athletes and I can continue to drill down and now it takes me to 5 different articles on the right hand side.
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Here she's sharing her miscarriage experience.
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And here's an article about Sean Johnson.
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And her husband Andrew. Okay, so just know that from even from a topic page you can access topic finder.
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We're going to talk a little bit more about Topic Finder in the next resource. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I'm going to quickly jump into opposing viewpoints.
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And this time, again, I can access topic Finder from the home page. So let's stick with that and we're going to go into let's do renewable energy.
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And here are my search results. So I can kick off my search. By using topic finder. So not only can I pull in search results from a topic page or even my search results if I were just.
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Accessing all of my search results like I did when I did the person search. I can still pull that into topic.
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Finder. I can also kick off my search using topic Finder. Okay, works the same way that I just shared with you where I can select.
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One of the tiles, it zooms in and I can continue to drill down. And on the right hand side, I will be provided with all of that great content.
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All right, let's go into, into. Advanced search again. So here I'm going to just click on advanced search.
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My search options are at the top.
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So I just showed you topic Finder, but now we're back in advance search. Few things in advance search I want to talk to you about.
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You do have some search tips here that are available. So on operators and special characters, this is a great little mini lesson.
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To share with your users, your students especially if they want a better understanding of what quotation marks do.
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Not only do we share that with them, but we also provide them with an example. Our search assist will also put terms into quotation marks for them.
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So if they use put in a term and then like let's use global warming for example.
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And I select it, it will automatically put that into quotation marks for me.
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I'm gonna get rid of that. So now we are going to look at content types. So down here in the middle of the page you have content types.
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And what we're going to look at, and you can see there's quite a few different options, we're going into infographics.
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So I have infographics. I am not going to put in a search term. But I am going to click.
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Sometimes I like to work this way where I have all the infographics and then maybe I drill down.
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Sometimes I like to just search through my infographics, but it's really easy. I'm in my infographics.
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I can very easily search within. So using my filter your results over here to the right hand side. I can select search within.
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And maybe I'm looking for artificial intelligence.
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When I'm on artificial intelligence, maybe this is the one I'm interested in.
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And these infographics if you're not familiar with them they're interactive also. So we have by age is what I'm looking at.
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I can change it to A groups. So this is a frequency of using AI tools. And you can see by age group very popular with our 18 to 29 year olds.
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You can look at race. And you can also look at political affiliation.
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Just very interesting. Now only that, but I can remove if I want to. Remove the notchures.
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I can remove that.
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So you can really manipulate these graphs. Below is another. Sometimes we have, I see a lot where we have 2 different graphs.
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Sometimes it's a pie chart below or it's just it might be a bar chart so it really just depends.
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Sometimes it's just an additional text information, but I do see a lot of our infographics have more than one.
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And again, where I can remove items if I want to remove all the notchures, if I want to look at by age group.
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You know, will it lead to more or fewer jobs? The fewer jobs compared to the more jobs is quite a difference here.
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But you could see how just moving my cursor it changes. That information that I'm seeing in my results.
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So a fun tool, tip and tool. Again, I went into my path was advanced search and all I did.
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Was select. The infographics. Content type. So right here.
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As you can see.
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And then I filtered down from there.
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Okay, now let's change it from infographics to viewpoints because I want to talk to you about viewpoints.
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Viewpoints in. Opposing viewpoints. Our viewpoint essays. What is a viewpoint essay?
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You'll always see these on your search results. Even on On our topic pages, it looks like it may still be.
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Filtering with my artificial intelligence. I'm seeing that my results. But you will see those viewpoint essays.
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In here I can access it through advanced search or if I'm on a topic page.
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My viewpoints are on the right hand side. Featured viewpoints or anything with the featured feature topics featured content is with the little star icon.
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Is hand selected information by our content editors. On the right, you're going to find the viewpoint essays.
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And viewpoint essays, just selecting this first one. Start with an article commentary. It talks about the author.
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So you can understand where this information is coming from. And then we have some questions. So these are really great to share.
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With our users because you can actually create an activity or a assignment out of just using these artif, article commentaries.
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Okay, we are right at the end of our time. I just wanted to show you a few more items real quick.
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We're going to jump into Gale In Context Elementary.
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And what I want to share with you here under the news did you know? That there are fun facts and they change every month.
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So under news you can find fun facts. Of what's happening. Every month and they like I said they change every single month it's always interesting to see that it was you know national elephant day and I had no idea.
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You also have something I want to share with you is you have the ability to turn, toggle the sound on and off.
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So in your contextual toolbar, if I toggle that sound on.
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It'll read the text below my cursor. So it helps students navigate through this resource.
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Now I wanted to show you those unlabeled images. I shared it with you in the PowerPoint.
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And a quick way to do that is to just do a basic search. And just type in unlabeled.
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And here are all of the unlabeled images. Now if we have an unlabeled image, then that means we also have a labeled image.
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The nice thing is with these unlabeled images is we give you Can you identify? So I've had a teacher share with me that they will pull this into like a to a word bank and students can then label the parts of the plant or label the image.
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So they can turn this literally into a student activity. Now, if I were to have done a basic search on, we did Ladybug earlier.
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Where I'm going to see both the labeled and unlabeled images is here in pictures.
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So here's my labeled image.
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Go back to pictures. And here's my unlabeled image.
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Okay. So quick way to find all the unlabeled images is to do a basic search.
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Otherwise, when you're on a, it could be a topic page or I just did my search results on ladybugs and you're going to find it in pictures there those labeled in unlabeled illustrations is what it'll be called.
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Another quick tip.
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We have lesson plans.
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Under our document, so in advance search, all I did was go to advanced search. Document type and if I want lesson plans I can select lesson plans and click search.
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And we have 97 coming out of magazines available.
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Going back to advanced search.
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If I wanted to do, let's do a quick search on spring. We'll use a search term of spring.
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And then We are going to use, let's do document type poem.
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And now click search.
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And this will take me to all of my poems. On spring. And some of these are written by students, by children.
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And some are, not, but you'll see if it's been written by students like I saw in here.
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It was Hannah, age 7. So it's really interesting to see, but we have so many great poems available within this resource too.
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And you can quickly ease and easily share this to Google Classroom. Or you can use the get link tool.
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Both options are available. And when you click into Here's a short little, so this one was by.
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Cela, I think, is how you would say her name, and she was 7 years old, and here's her quick little prey, her quick little poem.
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Alright, and then one more thing I wanna share with you before you leave me today, going back again to Advanced Search.
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Another item that folks aren't fully aware of is we have quite a few plays. So when you're looking for reading fluency.
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You can look at our plays.
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Click search, same idea. Just put in document type. And I put, I'm just going to search, so still in advanced search.
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There's a lot of great tools here.
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In the magazines. I can select any of the poems. I can use our highlights and notes feature.
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And highlight.
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If I want a character. Maybe all of Alex Brooks lines in yellow, I can go down and highlight Alex's lines in yellow.
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And if you have a color printer, you could print these off and have students, you know, read their parts and then they can identify their parts.
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And yellow. So it's just a way to use highlights and notes. You can send this marked up.
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Document to your Google Drive. So up in the contextual toolbar, you have the paper airplane.
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And that's where you're send 2 options are. Google Onedrive email. Hopefully some of these tools that I'm just tossing into the training since this is an advanced session you're familiar with them but like to still cover them but like to still cover them just in case.
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So. But that is the reps are session I do want to share with you where you can go for additional support.
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So hang with me for just about one more minute.
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And that's our gale support site. Oh, I'm sorry. First, you have your discus office help desk.
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You can reach out to the folks at discus if you have any questions. I also want to share with you the survey, so that just went into the chat box.
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But you have the support site and the support site is going to have all anything that you need to support your Gale resources.
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So in the training center you're going to find tip sheets and tutorials. There's recorded webinars and resource guides.
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PowerPoints, we have these new curriculum corners that just started in January and that does cover all of the in context resources but you can see which ones you have available from discus.
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And then we also have training toolkits, which are a great way to get started with the resources, especially if you're doing any training in your buildings.
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I use our training toolkits. We've curated all of our training materials for you. We give you the basics all the way to where you can go for additional help.
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And then here's some information on G and context biography, talking about person search, exactly what we went over today in our advanced tips and tips and tricks session.
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Where you have person search, advanced search, and takes you through that quick process. And then we have great marketing materials.
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Bookmarks, posters, emails, email templates, blog templates, social media posts, all available on your Gale support site.
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And that link will be in your follow-up email. Customer success managers, go to your discus folks for help first.
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They are going to be able to answer all of your questions. But if they can't, their customer success managers are there for that one-on-one support and they can your discus folks can share their information with you too.
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Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm your senior trainer at Gale.
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The training survey should pop up when you leave me today if you just click continue. And answer those questions, that would be great.
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Otherwise, I put the link in the chat and it's also here on the screen. So anyone watching the recording, you're more than welcome to fill out this.
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This link also because we had I know quite a few folks register some may be watching the recording and we'd love to get your feedback too because it matters to us.
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So thank you all for your time. If you have any questions, I will stay on the line. Be on the lookout for emails from me, a follow-up email with all the links I mentioned and also that attendance certificate for attending the live session today.
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But I thank you for a time and I hope you join us again next month. I think it's next month.
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We're doing, I gotta take a peek real quick here. We are going to be doing a choice boards session.
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I actually will be at the conference the doing a session for discus. And it is choice boards, but if you are not attending the school conference then I and can't, and my, if you are, come look at us come say hi at the Gale Booth and stop by my session.
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I'd love to meet you in person and also. I'm introduce you to this training session.
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But we will also be running it on March fourteenth for those that are not attending in Columbia in 2 not even 2 weeks the choice boards and gale resources session and we'll talk more about that then.
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But I look forward to having you all join us again and thank you so much for your time today. Have a great rest of your day.
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Everyone.
Welcome to our training session, advanced tips and tricks for your discus Gale resources. My name is Tammi Burke.
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I'm your Gale Trainer. Any questions today, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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Our training for discus today will focus on the browse and search options. Resource features, tips and tricks.
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And hidden gems within your gale resources. This is one of my favorite sessions to facilitate because I get to show all the fun stuff that's available and how to find it.
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So this is again an advanced session. We're gonna work in a few of the basics but really we're going to focus on those advanced tips and tricks.
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We will start with an overview. Providing you with where you can go for access. And an overview of the Gale resources.
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I'm just going to briefly do that at the beginning. And then we're spending all of our time on those.
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Advanced tips and tricks. Any questions? To Please feel free to ask or stop me along the way.
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And then the Gale support site is I'll share that at the end of today's training.
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That support site has all of the materials you need to make your resources that you have from Discus, your Gale resources, super successful.
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And I'll talk a little bit more about that. At the end of today's training and all the materials that we have available for you.
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On the Gale support site.
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Access to your discus resources, hopefully you're already familiar with this link. But this is how you and your students.
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And your libraries can access the resources. Is utilizing the se discus. Org link.
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And then let's start with that overview of the Gale resources. You have a 3 Gale In context resources for our kindergarten through fifth graders.
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Cross-curricular general reference resource, you have Gale in context elementary, full of great multimedia, all of our in context resources have great multimedia.
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Also, so audio videos, images available. Gale In context biography, this resource features contextual information on the world's most influential people.
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You'll find timelines and periodicals and again great multimedia content. And then a galling context opposing viewpoints is an engaging hot topic.
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It looks at social issues, pro-con, we don't provide our users with the pro con like we don't identify the documents as a pro article or pro document or a con because we want them to develop those critical thinking or critical analysis skills.
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So, but the nice thing is with opposing viewpoints is you get both sides of the issue and everything in between.
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So left, right, and center. You'll find in this resource. So great periodical content and of course multimedia is available.
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There is a some hidden gems in each of these that I'll be sharing today that I'm excited to share with you all.
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The ebook collection I will touch into this isn't one that we are going to. Go into today.
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But your ebook collection that you have and the reason why is because there there are some different advanced features but the functionality that I'm going to share in your in context resources works the same.
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In the ebooks. If I have some time at the end, I will jump into it real quick just to show you that but really it's very intuitive if you if I show you advanced search and the others it's gonna make sense in your e-book collections too.
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But just to let you know what you have is you do have poetry. For students and this features discussions and analysis of poems.
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From all time periods and nations and cultures. You have short stories for students providing those critical overviews of short stories.
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Drama for students, which is critical overviews of the most studied plays with discussion of themes, characters, and dramatic devices.
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And then novels for students and this provides critical overviews of novels including discussions of plot character themes and structure.
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So let's talk about your browse and search options that you have available with your Gale resources.
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You have topic pages and what topic pages are they're curated collections of information that're on a specific topic.
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With multi-level topic overviews. Topic pages are a great way for users to browse through content, retrieve articles and videos, audio files, biographies, images, and so much more related to a specific topic.
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Users will discover they'll discover subject content within reference. And periodicals and biographies, primary sources, enrich multimedia and so much more.
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So think of them as curated collections of information on certain topics that are aligned related to curriculum standards related to topics that are being studied in schools, or of, of, you know, at the public library opposing viewpoints is a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, viewpoints is a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, especially as, a great resource to use there because you have those topics of interest, especially as, we look at, you
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know, what's being delivered on the news and, you know, getting that authoritative content in a resource like a posing viewpoints can be really helpful for even a adults to develop those critical thinking skills.
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Topic Finder is a search option that offers a visual representation of your search results and it's interactive.
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It's searches for keywords through titles, subjects, and approximately the first 100 words of all documents within the database.
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Advanced search and research limiters and we're going to spend some time in our advanced search today.
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These can improve research for your users. Whether it's getting an additional getting to additional resources or refining results by reading level or content type, publication or subject.
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These, advanced search with the pre search limiters. Are always a really great tool for all of our users.
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There are search chips also available for users to help understand what operators and special characters are. The pre search limiters allow users to really customize their search results.
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By they can customize them by full text document or peer reviewed journals. Maybe if they're looking for specific publication dates or certain content levels.
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Lexile measures or content types. And we're going to spend some time in content types today and document types also are all available and you can utilize these limiters before you do your advanced search.
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So let's talk about some of the resources. We're going to look at them here and then I'm going to go live into each individual product but I want to introduce them to you here so you give you hopefully a little bit of background knowledge and then when I work through the resource hopefully won't feel like I'm moving too fast for you all.
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So first I want to talk to you about person search that can be found in Gale In context biography.
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So this is a valuable search option within Gale In context biography. You can find. Who you need in biography in this resource or gallant context biography.
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It's really easy when you have a name but if you don't person search allows you to search on a person's occupation, nationality, gender, and more.
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Some of the occupations are pretty unique. So let's take a look at those. So let's, we're gonna start here and then go into product.
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Person search is found it's always found in advanced search but it's also on the homepage you can see it here in the contextual toolbar.
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So you'll find it in both places. So if your users are accessing from the home screen, they can just quickly jump into person search, but it always lives under advanced search.
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And there are a lot of search options. So you'll find it again in that contextual toolbar.
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You will. I'm sorry, click on advanced search and then if you look in the sub-banner for the person search button that's where you'll find it.
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And you can, as I mentioned, you can search by gender. You can also search by nationality, ethnicity, occupation, place of birth, place of death.
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Birthday, birth, death date. Occupation search is where we can really have some fun and we are going to do that.
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But let me share with you because really with that occupation field, as you start to type in a term.
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It will filter to occupations included in the database. So you're going to find all the traditional occupations plus a few more.
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Because the range of people included in Gaelic context biography, the occupation field has a pretty loose definition of occupation.
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You'll find occupations such as bank robber or alien contact D and werewolf available within Gale In context biography.
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So again, loose definition of occupation. You can start with broader terms, which that's the path we're going to take a broader term.
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But I will show you where will or you know those are fun to do around in the fall. I mean if you if you're thinking about this in the future think about it next fall.
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October, werewolf switches, there's vampires in there you're going to find.
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So you can use that in a fun way to introduce the resource but also show a skill like teach at research skill by using that person search.
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Bite and then searching by occupation.
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The next resource will go into is, is Gale in context opposing viewpoints where you're going to find interactive infographics.
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I'm not sure if you know that these are available. I'm going to show you the shortest path to find all of the.
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And then we're going to work within them so you can see how they work within the resource. And again, we're going to be spending a lot of time in advanced search. And again, we're going to be spending a lot of time in advanced search today.
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Advanced search, you can be spending a lot of time in advanced search today. Advanced search, you can search by document type, but the interactive infographics So that meaning that larger area like primary sources or viewpoints or reference those larger topics of organization of content.
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On the topic pages. So we have content types.
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But also document types and we're going to spend time using both today to find what we're looking for.
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Also you have some options to filter your search results down. So even from that advanced search, once you are in your search results, you can filter down by using the filter bar, filter down your
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Results. You can also jump directly into Topic Finder. And topic Finder is a visual inner visual interactive tool.
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It's a visual representation of your search results. It's interactive. You can always access topic Finder with an advanced search.
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It also now lives on the homepage in our in context resources. The only resource it is not in is Gale In Context Elementary and it is something that we have asked for.
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We get mixed. Reviews on that and some people think it's it's more of a higher level and we do see that the majority of the time students are in Gale In Context.
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Elementary they're pointing and clicking so having Topic Finder there. May not be really much of a benefit to them.
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So that's something that Gale is aware of that folks are interested in it, but it is that is the one resource that it is not in right now.
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So, but it is available in biography and opposing viewpoints and your Gale ebooks too.
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And then the last resource we're going to go into is Gale In Context Elementary. One of the hidden gems I want to share with you today are the unlabeled images and you can find all of the unlabeled images within the resource.
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I'm going to show you how to do that, but we are also going to spend some time.
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Using advanced search today, to find both the labeled and unlabeled images, they will show up in search results.
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So on topic pages you'll find them always, they're always going to be found in pictures.
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So in the content type of pictures, that's where you're going to find both a labeled and an unlabeled image.
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So if we have these. Diagrams as you're seeing here, you will find that if you see the labeled image that there's going to be an unlabeled one available to.
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So sometimes what I'll do and I'll model this for you today is I'll just do a quick basic search for unlabeled and I know that okay I see an unlabeled illustration of parts of a plant that I know that there's a that there's a labeled image also available.
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So I could go to parts of a plant. There's a topic page for that and that's where I would find both.
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And I'm going to talk to you about how those can be used in the elementary libraries and classrooms.
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Or in your, with your children's library, these are great. This is a great fun activity that you can bring in spring is around the corner.
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There's a lot on plants and and different animals. Like ladybugs would be a fun activity to introduce to your public library programming.
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Alright, so with that, let's go into our first resource. Again, if you have any questions, just let me know.
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And we are going to go into. Byeography first.
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So gallant context biography, looking at the homepage. I just want to point out a few items.
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You can sign in with Google and Microsoft at the top of the page. You have translation options where you can translate the navigational tools here.
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And then if I scroll down, you have all of these subject categories. That are listed on the homepage.
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And these will change a little bit because there's so many. And I'm going to show that to you in a moment.
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There are so many different topics available, but we do have the topic pages for for each individual organized below each of those topics.
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So we have over 5,000 topic pages available. I mentioned Topic Finder during our PowerPoint and topic Finder can be found here on the homepage as I mentioned.
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I'll show you the other location that it is too. And of course it always lives under advanced search here too.
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So let's go right to person search. We're gonna start there. In person search, you can, if you have the person's name, you can, you can use the person's name here.
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A basic search would be the same. You'd get the same results. The difference is here is if you don't have a search term or well I should say.
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If you use a person's name here, if there's any also known as This is where you would get that.
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That type of information. Where with a basic search it's just going to pull back all that content.
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So it's a little different in that respect. And I'm going to show you. I'm gonna.
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Pretend we don't have a name and we're just going to use some of these limiters to find people that we're interested in.
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The first one I'm going to do a quick and easy one and we're going to make it fun and I'm going to look for magicians.
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You can see search assist helps me out here. I click Magician, click search. And then I have all of the occupations here.
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You can see Beth. Birthday and death date and then over on the left hand side. Are a list of people who are.
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Magicians like we have here and then if there's any also known as this is what I was just referring to.
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If they're also known as. And you might have some like that it's a broad term so Magician, comedian, we have actors, so it might be a little bit of a combination of results, not strictly just magicians because there are other occupations that are similar.
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This one is a little interesting to have there, but okay from this person died, 1460. So I'm guessing we maybe have a couple things on them.
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But a hundred 86 people that we have. In this resource. Something related to a magician or a magician.
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Let's go back to that advanced search. Now let's use some of these filters in person search.
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So again, person search can be found on the homepage in the contextual toolbar or it always lives under advanced search and I took that path backwards.
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I just clicked on advanced search and when you do that, here's a little tip. It will clear out your past search.
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So if you use the back button, It's going to keep whatever search terms you put in. So the occupation of magician would still be here.
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If I open up advanced search and then go into person search it'll clear my previous searches, search terms that I put in.
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Okay, so that's a little tip with your Gale resources. Do you want to clear it off?
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Just go in and start. It's basically like starting it over so you're it's almost like a reset button if you think of it that way.
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Okay, African, so we're gonna go to let's do as in the city and we're gonna go to African-american.
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And Hispanic American.
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And then I'm going to jump to gender. And you can see we have female male gender fluid non-binary.
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And we also have the LGBTQ plus. Occupation, I'm going to jump over nationality and jump right to occupation and this is a really broad term that I'm going to use.
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As that scientist.
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Now I can put in place of birth, place of death. I can select the birth, the date of birth range or date of death range.
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So I can be a little bit more specific. And this is because you're going to see how broad and how much information it's going to pull back.
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So youizing some of these other limiters is going to be really helpful. To your users.
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When I click on it, you can see all of my filters. I have a hundred 26 names here.
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And then when I select one, so here we have the also known as, so everything is rolling up here for me.
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When I select one and let me make sure this is who I wanted to select today. Yes.
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Here are my search results. So I have biographies, news images, academic journals, audio websites, some magazines available.
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But I don't have a topic page. On this person. So, but you can see I have.
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I have one image and then some audio content. Available, but the biography, the biographical information is fantastic what I'm already seeing in the results.
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Then I could see if it's a biography or is it a brief biography? We have our content level showing up here.
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Just a little bit about content levels. There are 5. If you remember that a level 3 is middle school.
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Then it is really easy. Ones and twos are elementary. And we say generally elementary because we know we have some students that read at a higher level and then we say generally middle school because we know we have students that read at a lower level.
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So. Ones and twos generally elementary 3 middle school and then fours and fives are at that high school to undergrad level.
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And I will say sometimes you'll see in like in Gale In Context Elementary if you see a higher level there the magazines and newspapers I'm sure you're all familiar with this sometimes skew it a little higher.
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There might be a word that skews it a little higher, but we do have the listen button where students can listen to the text being right aloud to them.
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So if that's the case. We don't want to leave those those documents out of that for them.
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But again, it's in Gaelic context elementary, you'll see a lot of that for them.
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But again, it's in Gaelic context elementary, you'll see a lot of the level ones and twos, but there might be some threes there also that you'll Okay, so that's how we do a person search.
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I pointed out the also known as, but now let's go take a different path. We're gonna go back to the homepage.
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And this time I'm going to browse people and I can access it here through the contextual toolbar.
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Or browse all people here. And the reason why I want to show you this is because of the topics.
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So the topics you had a nice selection on the homepage, but look at all of the topics that you have available.
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So this is one of those tools that folks aren't necessarily aware of because they don't take that next step and click browse people.
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So you can see all of the like if I want summer Olympics is coming up. Maybe I want to look at summer Olympics.
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And it will filter that content down. Or And I'm going to, I have to go back to view all.
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It was acting a little. Off today. There we go. Now I want to switch it to maybe I want notable.
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Olympians. Shawn Johnson, I really like her. And here I am taken to her topic page.
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At this point, if I want to share this with with my, you know, it on my library website or if I'm a teacher I want to share it with students I can use the get link tool.
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Which will provide a persistent URL back to the spot or I can use Google Classroom and pull it right into.
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Google Classroom. Okay, let me know if there are any questions. We're gonna keep moving through the resources.
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One thing before I leave, even from a topic page, I can access topic finder. The differences here is it would pull in my, and let me just show you, it will pull in the results from this topic.
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So here I can see if I like this visualization, I like this interactive tool to look at content.
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I can do that. I have either the tile or the wheel. Both options are available. The tiles are a little bit more popular with our K through 12 students.
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And I can quickly jump into.
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Olympic athletes and I can continue to drill down and now it takes me to 5 different articles on the right hand side.
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Here she's sharing her miscarriage experience.
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And here's an article about Sean Johnson.
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And her husband Andrew. Okay, so just know that from even from a topic page you can access topic finder.
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We're going to talk a little bit more about Topic Finder in the next resource. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I'm going to quickly jump into opposing viewpoints.
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And this time, again, I can access topic Finder from the home page. So let's stick with that and we're going to go into let's do renewable energy.
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And here are my search results. So I can kick off my search. By using topic finder. So not only can I pull in search results from a topic page or even my search results if I were just.
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Accessing all of my search results like I did when I did the person search. I can still pull that into topic.
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Finder. I can also kick off my search using topic Finder. Okay, works the same way that I just shared with you where I can select.
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One of the tiles, it zooms in and I can continue to drill down. And on the right hand side, I will be provided with all of that great content.
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All right, let's go into, into. Advanced search again. So here I'm going to just click on advanced search.
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My search options are at the top.
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So I just showed you topic Finder, but now we're back in advance search. Few things in advance search I want to talk to you about.
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You do have some search tips here that are available. So on operators and special characters, this is a great little mini lesson.
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To share with your users, your students especially if they want a better understanding of what quotation marks do.
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Not only do we share that with them, but we also provide them with an example. Our search assist will also put terms into quotation marks for them.
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So if they use put in a term and then like let's use global warming for example.
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And I select it, it will automatically put that into quotation marks for me.
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I'm gonna get rid of that. So now we are going to look at content types. So down here in the middle of the page you have content types.
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And what we're going to look at, and you can see there's quite a few different options, we're going into infographics.
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So I have infographics. I am not going to put in a search term. But I am going to click.
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Sometimes I like to work this way where I have all the infographics and then maybe I drill down.
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Sometimes I like to just search through my infographics, but it's really easy. I'm in my infographics.
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I can very easily search within. So using my filter your results over here to the right hand side. I can select search within.
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And maybe I'm looking for artificial intelligence.
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When I'm on artificial intelligence, maybe this is the one I'm interested in.
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And these infographics if you're not familiar with them they're interactive also. So we have by age is what I'm looking at.
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I can change it to A groups. So this is a frequency of using AI tools. And you can see by age group very popular with our 18 to 29 year olds.
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You can look at race. And you can also look at political affiliation.
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Just very interesting. Now only that, but I can remove if I want to. Remove the notchures.
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I can remove that.
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So you can really manipulate these graphs. Below is another. Sometimes we have, I see a lot where we have 2 different graphs.
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Sometimes it's a pie chart below or it's just it might be a bar chart so it really just depends.
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Sometimes it's just an additional text information, but I do see a lot of our infographics have more than one.
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And again, where I can remove items if I want to remove all the notchures, if I want to look at by age group.
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You know, will it lead to more or fewer jobs? The fewer jobs compared to the more jobs is quite a difference here.
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But you could see how just moving my cursor it changes. That information that I'm seeing in my results.
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So a fun tool, tip and tool. Again, I went into my path was advanced search and all I did.
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Was select. The infographics. Content type. So right here.
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As you can see.
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And then I filtered down from there.
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Okay, now let's change it from infographics to viewpoints because I want to talk to you about viewpoints.
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Viewpoints in. Opposing viewpoints. Our viewpoint essays. What is a viewpoint essay?
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You'll always see these on your search results. Even on On our topic pages, it looks like it may still be.
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Filtering with my artificial intelligence. I'm seeing that my results. But you will see those viewpoint essays.
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In here I can access it through advanced search or if I'm on a topic page.
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My viewpoints are on the right hand side. Featured viewpoints or anything with the featured feature topics featured content is with the little star icon.
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Is hand selected information by our content editors. On the right, you're going to find the viewpoint essays.
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And viewpoint essays, just selecting this first one. Start with an article commentary. It talks about the author.
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So you can understand where this information is coming from. And then we have some questions. So these are really great to share.
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With our users because you can actually create an activity or a assignment out of just using these artif, article commentaries.
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Okay, we are right at the end of our time. I just wanted to show you a few more items real quick.
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We're going to jump into Gale In Context Elementary.
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And what I want to share with you here under the news did you know? That there are fun facts and they change every month.
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So under news you can find fun facts. Of what's happening. Every month and they like I said they change every single month it's always interesting to see that it was you know national elephant day and I had no idea.
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You also have something I want to share with you is you have the ability to turn, toggle the sound on and off.
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So in your contextual toolbar, if I toggle that sound on.
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It'll read the text below my cursor. So it helps students navigate through this resource.
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Now I wanted to show you those unlabeled images. I shared it with you in the PowerPoint.
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And a quick way to do that is to just do a basic search. And just type in unlabeled.
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And here are all of the unlabeled images. Now if we have an unlabeled image, then that means we also have a labeled image.
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The nice thing is with these unlabeled images is we give you Can you identify? So I've had a teacher share with me that they will pull this into like a to a word bank and students can then label the parts of the plant or label the image.
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So they can turn this literally into a student activity. Now, if I were to have done a basic search on, we did Ladybug earlier.
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Where I'm going to see both the labeled and unlabeled images is here in pictures.
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So here's my labeled image.
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Go back to pictures. And here's my unlabeled image.
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Okay. So quick way to find all the unlabeled images is to do a basic search.
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Otherwise, when you're on a, it could be a topic page or I just did my search results on ladybugs and you're going to find it in pictures there those labeled in unlabeled illustrations is what it'll be called.
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Another quick tip.
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We have lesson plans.
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Under our document, so in advance search, all I did was go to advanced search. Document type and if I want lesson plans I can select lesson plans and click search.
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And we have 97 coming out of magazines available.
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Going back to advanced search.
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If I wanted to do, let's do a quick search on spring. We'll use a search term of spring.
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And then We are going to use, let's do document type poem.
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And now click search.
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And this will take me to all of my poems. On spring. And some of these are written by students, by children.
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And some are, not, but you'll see if it's been written by students like I saw in here.
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It was Hannah, age 7. So it's really interesting to see, but we have so many great poems available within this resource too.
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And you can quickly ease and easily share this to Google Classroom. Or you can use the get link tool.
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Both options are available. And when you click into Here's a short little, so this one was by.
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Cela, I think, is how you would say her name, and she was 7 years old, and here's her quick little prey, her quick little poem.
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Alright, and then one more thing I wanna share with you before you leave me today, going back again to Advanced Search.
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Another item that folks aren't fully aware of is we have quite a few plays. So when you're looking for reading fluency.
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You can look at our plays.
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Click search, same idea. Just put in document type. And I put, I'm just going to search, so still in advanced search.
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There's a lot of great tools here.
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In the magazines. I can select any of the poems. I can use our highlights and notes feature.
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And highlight.
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If I want a character. Maybe all of Alex Brooks lines in yellow, I can go down and highlight Alex's lines in yellow.
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And if you have a color printer, you could print these off and have students, you know, read their parts and then they can identify their parts.
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And yellow. So it's just a way to use highlights and notes. You can send this marked up.
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Document to your Google Drive. So up in the contextual toolbar, you have the paper airplane.
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And that's where you're send 2 options are. Google Onedrive email. Hopefully some of these tools that I'm just tossing into the training since this is an advanced session you're familiar with them but like to still cover them but like to still cover them just in case.
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So. But that is the reps are session I do want to share with you where you can go for additional support.
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So hang with me for just about one more minute.
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And that's our gale support site. Oh, I'm sorry. First, you have your discus office help desk.
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You can reach out to the folks at discus if you have any questions. I also want to share with you the survey, so that just went into the chat box.
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But you have the support site and the support site is going to have all anything that you need to support your Gale resources.
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So in the training center you're going to find tip sheets and tutorials. There's recorded webinars and resource guides.
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PowerPoints, we have these new curriculum corners that just started in January and that does cover all of the in context resources but you can see which ones you have available from discus.
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And then we also have training toolkits, which are a great way to get started with the resources, especially if you're doing any training in your buildings.
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I use our training toolkits. We've curated all of our training materials for you. We give you the basics all the way to where you can go for additional help.
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And then here's some information on G and context biography, talking about person search, exactly what we went over today in our advanced tips and tips and tricks session.
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Where you have person search, advanced search, and takes you through that quick process. And then we have great marketing materials.
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Bookmarks, posters, emails, email templates, blog templates, social media posts, all available on your Gale support site.
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And that link will be in your follow-up email. Customer success managers, go to your discus folks for help first.
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They are going to be able to answer all of your questions. But if they can't, their customer success managers are there for that one-on-one support and they can your discus folks can share their information with you too.
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Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm your senior trainer at Gale.
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The training survey should pop up when you leave me today if you just click continue. And answer those questions, that would be great.
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Otherwise, I put the link in the chat and it's also here on the screen. So anyone watching the recording, you're more than welcome to fill out this.
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This link also because we had I know quite a few folks register some may be watching the recording and we'd love to get your feedback too because it matters to us.
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So thank you all for your time. If you have any questions, I will stay on the line. Be on the lookout for emails from me, a follow-up email with all the links I mentioned and also that attendance certificate for attending the live session today.
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But I thank you for a time and I hope you join us again next month. I think it's next month.
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We're doing, I gotta take a peek real quick here. We are going to be doing a choice boards session.
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I actually will be at the conference the doing a session for discus. And it is choice boards, but if you are not attending the school conference then I and can't, and my, if you are, come look at us come say hi at the Gale Booth and stop by my session.
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I'd love to meet you in person and also. I'm introduce you to this training session.
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But we will also be running it on March fourteenth for those that are not attending in Columbia in 2 not even 2 weeks the choice boards and gale resources session and we'll talk more about that then.
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But I look forward to having you all join us again and thank you so much for your time today. Have a great rest of your day.
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Everyone.